Ahmad Ahmadi (; 1885 – October 1944, known as ''Pezeshk Ahmadi'' meaning Physician Ahmadi) was an

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nurse. He was born in

Mashhad Mashhad ( ; ), historically also known as Mashad, Meshhed, or Meshed in English, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. ...

to Mohammad Ali Ahmadi. He worked as a nurse at

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, where he was ordered to kill

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; he was later

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for these crimes.

Crimes

While he was employed at

Qasr prison The Museum of the Qasr Prison ( ''muze-ye zendān-e qasr''; formerly referred to as the Qasr Prison, ''zendān-e qasr'', meaning "Palace Prison") is a historical complex in Tehran, Iran. The building was one of the oldest political prisons i ...

, he was ordered to kill numerous

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s. Many political prisoners died under his notorious air injections. Some of the more famous were Mirza Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi,

Abdolhossein Teymourtash Abdolhossein Teymourtash (; 25 September 1883 – 3 October 1933) was an influential Iranian statesman who served as the first minister of court of the Pahlavi dynasty from 1925 to 1932, and is credited with playing a crucial role in laying the ...

, Sardar As'ad and his brother Khānbābā Khān As'ad, Taghi Arani, and Ayatollah Mirza Mohammad Najafi Khorasani (Ayatollah Aghazadeh). Ahmadi was generally paid 10 to 15 Iranian tomans for every person he killed. If the victim was more prominent, he could be paid 100 tomans. When the British and Soviets invaded Iran in 1941,

Rezā Shāh Reza Shah Pahlavi born Reza Khan (15 March 1878 – 26 July 1944) was shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the roughly 53 years old Pahlavi dynasty. Originally a military officer, he became a politician, serving as minister of war an ...

of the

Pahlavi dynasty The Pahlavi dynasty () is an List of monarchs of Iran, Iranian royal dynasty that was the Pahlavi Iran, last to rule Iran before the country's monarchy was abolished by the Iranian Revolution in 1979. It was founded in 1925 by Reza Shah, Reza S ...

was overthrown, and the judiciary, headed by Jalāl Abdeh, under popular pressure, was appointed to take many infamous figures such as Ahmadi to trial for their crimes during the first Pahlavi era.

Trial and execution

After being released from eight years of exile in 1941, Iran Teymourtash travelled to Iraq and succeeded in arranging for Ahmadi's extradition to Iran on charges that he had killed her father, Abdolhossein Teymourtash. Ahmadi, along with Sarpās Mokhtār (Central Police chief), Mostafā Rāsekh, and Hosein Niroumand, was arrested and tried for crimes committed during Rezā Shāh's reign. Ahmadi was found guilty of two murders by the court and was

sentenced to death Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in s ...

. He was hanged in public in October 1944 in Tehran's Toopkhāneh Square. Prior to his execution, officials allowed Ahmadi to make a final prayer and told him to repent. After praying, Ahmadi started shouting that he was a scapegoat. Officials cut him off midway through his speech.

"O people, I am not a murderer!... My only sin is that I have carried out the orders of my superiors... and now, because I am the weakest of all, everything has fallen on my shoulders... The main murderer of Brigadier Mukhtar and Reza Shah himself."

External links

*ايران در سه قرن گذشته (''Iran in the Last Three Centuries'') by Alireza Avsati. Published Tehran, 2003. Vol. 1 Vol. 2 * These Three Women: Ashraf Pahlavi, Mariam Firouz, and Iran Teymourtash, (EEn Se Zan") by Massoud Behnoud.

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Crimes

Trial and execution

See also

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